{"id":20,"date":"2003-07-02T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-02T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=20"},"modified":"2021-01-02T11:32:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T06:02:16","slug":"war-against-the-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2003\/07\/02\/war-against-the-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"War against the machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">Nope, this is not about arnie&#8217;s latest exploits&#8230;just thought i will give hinduism a break for a day and return to what i was shooting mymouth off, a couple of days back&#8230;I got a couple of notes from michelle and sapna, both forced me to think again, but&#8230;.. Sapna says that if i am born with a silver spoon, i cant live without it, and its not that bad&#8230;true, i cant go lower, but arent i always trying to get a gold or platinum spoon, and at the end of the accumulation mania, isnt what is left a hollow feeling&#8230;my question, can we ever teach ourselves to be content?? michelle is right in saying that if it leaves her happy, y shdnt she be having a cell, a player and other consumer goodies, my answer is the same as before, then why are we always cribbing, and looking for an outlet like this&#8230;.from a different angle, i think what i amtrying to say is, :-), arnt the machines killing our social interaction? i am not talking about the easiness, yes, they have certainly revolutionised communication, but about the quality of interaction.honestly, wouldnt i prefer a face to face conversation than a few sms, chat or a call&#8230;.when we talk about the good old days of college\/university, isnt that what we are missing, the human element, the direct interaction?? but we have easier means now- the net, a cell&#8230;&#8230;and the worst part, in my view is time crunching&#8230;..hmmm, that would be tomorrow&#8217;s post&#8230;. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nope, this is not about arnie&#8217;s latest exploits&#8230;just thought i will give hinduism a break for a day and return to what i was shooting mymouth off, a couple of days back&#8230;I got a couple of notes from michelle and sapna, both forced me to think again, but&#8230;.. Sapna says that if i am born <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2003\/07\/02\/war-against-the-machines\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1479,6056],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughtstream","category-society-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15118,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/15118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}